Mormon poetry

[2] Franklin Richards was president of the European Mission and said that when "faithful Saints" prayerfully study religious poetry, "the heart is purified," the soul inspired, and good judgement bred.

[1]: 86  For example, the Elder's Journal, published at Far West in 1838 and edited by Joseph and Don Carlos Smith, contained a beautiful poetic tribute to James G.

Notable poets include Eliza R. Snow, Parley P. Pratt, W. W. Phelps, and John Lyon, who wrote The Harp of Zion: A Collection of Poems, Etc.

Poets Josephine Spencer and Augusta Joyce Crocheron wrote poems; some were didactic, and others had realism or narrative as goals.

[4]:465–467 Whitney was an advocate of the home literature movement, which encouraged both published works and personal efforts to create "faith-promoting" verses.

[7] The generation was considered "lost" because the critical works were largely rejected by Mormons themselves despite the praise they received from the rest of the poetry community.

[10] In 1997, Boyd K. Packer shared his faith about the cleansing power of Jesus in his poem "Washed Clean" as part of his April conference sermon.

He specifically mentioned the works of Kimberly Johnson, calling her poems in Uncommon Prayer "a well-crafted triptych of reverent irreverence that answers in verse the rising tide of postsecularism.

"[14]: 81  Johnson has also made translations for Hesiod's Theogony and Works of Days, which Fuller assesses as the "most readable English version available.

[14]: 82  Fuller further mentions John Talbot's witty Rough Translation, Lance Larson's "eminently readable" Genius Loci, and Susan Elizabeth Howe's Salt.

[citation needed] For Mormons, poetry is a form of art that can bring the Holy Spirit to the presented message.